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Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.
Author: Lord Barnett
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Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.
Author: Samuel Johnson
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The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.
Author: Al Neuharth
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Pro football gave me a good perspective. When I entered the political arena, I had already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded, and hung in effigy.
Author: Jack Kemp
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Pointing out the comic elements of a situation can bring a sense of proportion and perspective to what might otherwise seem an overwhelming problem.
Author: Harvey Mindess
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If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Author: Abraham H. Maslow
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Tragedy and comedy are but two aspects of what is real, and whether we see the tragic or the humorous is a matter of perspective.
Author: Arnold Beisser
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Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
Author: Lewis Grizzard
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If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he can't go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking -- one sport you shouldn't have to reserve a time and a court for.
Author: Edward Hoagland
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Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.
Author: Cardinal De Rets
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It's in the reaction of others that perfection is found in the flawed.
Author: Susie Switzer
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Freedom is never letting your fears stop you from following your heart.
Author: Susie Switzer
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
Author: Alvin Toffler
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Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
Author: Karl Wallenda
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Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell. - Tremendous Trifles.
Author: G. K. Chesterton
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The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
Author: Colin Wilson
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Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you. - Essays.
Author: Frank Crane
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There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
Author: Don Herold
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Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.
Author: Ray Knight
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It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.
Author: Wilton M. Blount
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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.
Author: Mark Van Doren
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The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the civil service, in the official bureaus. To him government is something given as unconditionally, as absolutely as ocean or hill. He goes on winding the tape that he finds. His imagination has rarely extricated itself from under the administrative machine to gain any sense of what a human, temporary contraption the whole affair is. What he thinks is the heavens above him is nothing but the roof.
Author: Walter Lippmann
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Its the little things that matter, that add up in the end, with the priceless thrilling magic found only in a friend.
Author: Elizabeth Dunphy
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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Author: Paul Eldridge
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The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.
Author: John Holt
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A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.
Author: Ken Keys
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Bluntness is a virtue.
Author: Allison Ling
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
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To linger in the observation of things other than the self implies a profound conviction of their worth. - My Friends the Senses.
Author: Charles-damian Boulogne
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Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence. - A Letter to Myself.
Author: Françoise Mallet-joris
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I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.
Author: Peter Nivio Zarlenga
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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
Author: Hume
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Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.
Author: Eric Hoffer
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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
Author: Aneurin Bevan
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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
Author: Dick Cavett
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To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
Author: St. Augustine
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To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.
Author: Eric Hoffer
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You are only as wise as others perceive you to be.
Author: M. Shawn Cole
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Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.
Author: Lord Barnett
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There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
Author: Peter A. Cohen
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The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
Author: James Allen
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The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.
Author: George Bidault
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In youth we learn; in age we understand.
Author: Marie Von Ebner-eschenbac
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What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?
Author: Philip K. Dick
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The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.
Author: Michael Konda
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A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.
Author: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism. - Essays and Aphorisms.
Author: A. R. Orage
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If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. - Nursery Rhymes of England, 1844.
Author: James Halliwell
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The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything. Drops of water, by continually falling, hone their passage through the hardest of rocks but the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar and leaves no trace behind.
Author: Og Mandino
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Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.
Author: Richard Cecil
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